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The City Council passed Mayor Daley's insane budget with a vote of 36-14. Only in Chicago is that "a departure from the overwhelming victories" of years past. The tax package was a closer call, but still passed 29-21.
The approved plans include doubling the phoneline surcharge to $2.50 per month to support the city's 911 centers, raising the tax on wine and beer, a 5-cent tax on bottled water, higher parking tickets, and dozens of other charges.
Here's the money quote from the Trib:
Supporters and opponents agreed that their residents were upset at the costs, especially the $86 million increase in the property tax."Whether you vote for or against this, you will not be happy about this vote. And the citizens and the residents certainly will not be," said Ald. Virginia Rugai (19th), who voted for the budget.
In other words, No one is happy, least of all the people I represent, and I, an alderman in a position to do something about this, choose instead to do nothing.
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Ald. Rugai is daleys lap dog. The price of corruption in this crap city just went up.
Whine, whine, whine.
Did you know that the war in Iraq is going to cost the average family 20,900 smackaroos? It is. And you wonder where all of the money earmarked for cities is going. Did you know that other cities are going through the same thing we're going through right now? 20,900 smackaroos. There's your money. Time to re-direct your energies elsewhere.
Yeah the war in Iraq sucks and imagainst it but daleys buddys getting 1.5million for a parcel of land they paid 50g for is stupid and corrupt. Hired trucks doing nothing but collecting money fake minority contractors from bridgport muchless, wrought iron fence contracts after daley decieded that looks nice, tearing up miegs field just because Violating the shakman decree because he can. Well Daley is the criminal how many city contracts for his nephew how many boards of civic org and companys doing buisness with the city for his wife. Corruption is the reason for these tax increases!!PLus he butchers the language worse than I when speaking its a crime I say.
here is the breakdown of who voted for this nonsense (from 'clout street').
Vote on overall budget
Yes (37) — Dowell (3rd), Hairston (5th), Lyle (6th), Harris (8th), Beale (9th), Pope (10th), Balcer (11th), Cardenas (12th), Olivo (13th), Burke (14th), Thompson (16th, Thomas (17th), Lane (18th), Rugai (19th), Cochran (20th), Brookins (21st), Zalewski (23rd), Solis (25th), Ocasio (26th), Burnett (27th), E. Smith (28th), Carothers (29th), Reboyras (30th), Suarez (31st), Waguespack (32nd), Mell (33rd), Austin (34th), Banks (36th), Mitts (37th), Allen (38th), Laurino (39th), O’Connor (40th), Daley (43rd), Tunney (44th), Levar (45th), Shiller (46th), M. Smith (48th).
No (13) — Flores (1st), Fioretti (2nd), Preckwinkle (4th), Jackson (7th), Foulkes (15th), Munoz (22nd), Dixon (24th), Colon (35th), Doherty (41st), Reilly (42nd), Schulter (47th), Moore (49th), Stone (50th).
That's your answer, BC? If only we had more federal money city finances would be fine?
Gee, and here I thought it would be better to have a thriving Chicago economy without corruption and graft so that we could be more self-sustaining and not be as reliant on the whims of whomever is occupying Washington and Springfield. Silly me.
And the toolkit just keeps growing...
Then there is the 10 million dollars we spent defending torturer Jon Burge,which is a drope in the bucket, but hey, lets bring the Olympic Game$S to Chicago! Which of course will be a drain on the tax payers but yet another win fall for his cronies. I am proud to say, I have never vvoted for Daley, yes I voted for some clowns, but never him